Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Wednesday, June 1, 1994

by John Switzer

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Please note the following disclaimer when reading and using this
summary:

1. These summaries are unofficial summaries and are not approved
or sanctioned by Rush Limbaugh or EIB, and should not be
considered a 100% accurate representation of each show. I have no
connection to Rush Limbaugh or EIB other than as a daily
listener.

2. Because this summary is not a word-by-word transcript, it is
inevitable that I may not accurately portray Rush's beliefs or
supporting points. My choice of words may also distort the points
presented by Rush and his callers. A good rule of thumb is "If
something sounds reasonable and intelligent, it belongs to Rush;
if something sounds weird or wrong, it probably belongs to me."

3. The format of this summary is as follows:

o	BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS - since I haven't been able to
keep up with the indexing of these summaries, I've decided to
briefly summarize the major topics of each day's show in this
relatively brief paragraph. It will also appear in the table of
contents for each month, hopefully making it easy to find shows
about specific topics.

o	NEWS - refers to what I consider to be pertinent news
items of the day, as reported by the newspapers, radio, or TV
news media.  This news may or may not also be reported by Rush
during his show; however, I like to use this feature to keep a
perspective on current events as they happen.

o	LIMBAUGH WATCH - this feature keeps a close watch of
Rush's popularity and will notify you of the moment of his
broadcasting demise, which liberals are certain is imminent, now
that Bill Clinton is President.

o	LEST WE FORGET - Highlights from the Rush Limbaugh show
that aired two years ago.

o	MORNING UPDATE - this is Rush's syndicated morning update
which is separate from his regular show.

o	Items - these are the short bits of news or other items
of interest that Rush himself discusses.

o	Phone - this indicates a phone call.

o	Update - this is one of Rush's many updates, and
indicates which song Rush is playing. Note, though, that I may
not use the "official" title of the song, and sometimes will use
the most recognizable line of lyrics as the title.

Any other text is part of Rush's monologue.

4. Anything that appears in "double quotes" may or may not be a
direct quote of Rush, his sources, or his callers. Use the
context of the quoted statement to determine the meaning. My
editorial comments are enclosed in double angled brackets (<<>>).

5. Although I strive for accuracy at all times, because of the
length of each show (3 hours a day, 5 days a week), I cannot
check facts, figures, or names. In particular, the names of
people, places, and things may be spelled incorrectly.

6. A note is needed on Rush's sense of humor, which can run the
gamut from sardonic and sarcastic to rude and crude. Trying to
convey the spirit of spoken humor into the written word is a
daunting task, and I may not always be successful. Therefore, I
use the following conventions to identify Rush's humor: a) a
lead-in such as "Rush jokes" or "Rush injects some humor by
saying; b) using words such as "according to Rush," "supposedly,"
"allegedly" as in "The police supposedly called the theft of 500
panties `unmentionable.'" c) putting editorial comments within
double brackets as in <<Rush is joking here>>. Above all, use
your knowledge of Rush and his show, and the context of the
remarks to determine if humor is present.

DISCLAIMER: This unofficial summary is intended for regular
listeners of Rush's show and is not intended to replace or
supplant Rush's show, as if that were possible. If you find that
you cannot regularly listen to Rush's show, check with your local
station to see if they replay the show later at night. My local
station, for example, replays the show most nights at 8pm. You
can also use most VCRs to record from the radio - simply connect
an audio cable from the AUDIO IN jack at the back of your VCR to
the AUDIO OUT or auxiliary speaker jack at the back of your
radio. Then switch your VCR over to LINE mode (see the VCR's
documentation for details) and record.

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June 1, 1994

BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS: sexual harassment a way of life in
Russian businesses; details on federal indictments against Dan
Rostenkowski; Rostenkwoski will become the posterchild for the
term limits movement; words to "Dan Rostenkowski limited edition
postage stamp" commercial; members of House enjoy the franking
privilege, yet still insisted on creating a House Post Office;
defenses of Rostenkowski just don't wash; Democrats voted to
whitewash any investigations into House Post Office; Mary Matalin
gives first-person account of Rush's wedding; Clinton is
perfecting the politics of lashing out against Republicans with
his claims that Republicans are messengers of hate and fear;
Clinton's foreign policy is such a failure in part because it's
being run for domestic consumption; Clinton White House thinks
its problems with public are communications problems, not the
result of people disliking the policies; Marine guard ends up
saluting Presidential golf bag in Porkchopper incident;
Washington, DC jury pool won't be one sympathetic to Congress and
federal government; Republicans seem afraid to be blunt about
matters and to take the initiative; Democrats knew about House
Post Office scandal nine months before it went public;
Republicans are not pointing out that the rich are paying their
fair share now, thanks to the elimination of tax shelters in
1986; those in Washington find it easy to justify their theft and
corruption on the basis of how they are doing important work for
the people; if Paula Jones's story is true, then Clinton is a
sick man; while Clinton might not have been suited to fighting in
military, many others in that position still served their country
with distinction and honor; Vietnam War vets encountered enemy
that other veterans never faced: protesting Americans; words to
"A Whole New World"; Mary Matalin and Bill Clinton share the same
birthday; DC tourist, asked what else he could want after meeting
the President, replies "George Bush"; Pope John Paul intends to
discuss abortion with President Clinton; D-Day historian says he
wants a mature President, one who made a name for himself before
entering the White House; letter to editor by Col. Robert Grady
sarcastically agrees with Clinton that his generation - the WWII
generation - didn't know sacrifice; Nearly half of NYC mail
doesn't arrive on time; farmer's property confiscated because he
allegedly killed a rat that was endangered; Army Corps of
Engineers admitted it harassed a man without any cause; train
surfer killed in NYC; Supreme Court decides not to hear Cobb
County's case asking to be allowed to post Ten Commandments in
the county courthouse; Rep. Dick Armey's plan to reform Congress;
liberals are attacking tobacco companies as part of their agenda
to tell people how they should be living their lives; what can
conservatives do to make their voices heard?; system that allowed
Rostenkowski's abuses should also be investigated; Republicans
must do more than expect scandal to win election victories for
them; words to the "Rush Rap"; Post Office not run on taxpayer
money; Clinton health care plan is in trouble not because
Rostenkowski was indicted but because people don't like it; Rush
and EIB are antidote to the sourness of Washington under Clinton.

LIMBAUGH WATCH

June 1, 1994 - It's now day 498 (day 517 for the rich and the
dead) of "America Held Hostage" (aka the "Raw Deal") and 575 days
after Bill Clinton's election, but Rush is still on the air with
640 radio affiliates (with more than 22 million listeners weekly
world-wide), 234 TV affiliates (with a national rating of 3.7),
and a newsletter with over 440,000 subscribers.

His first book was on the NY Times hardback non-fiction best-
seller list for 54 consecutive weeks, with 2.6 million copies
sold, but fell off the list after Simon and Schuster stopped
printing it. The paperback version of "The Way Things Ought To
Be" was on the NY Times paperback non-fiction best-seller list
for 28 weeks. Rush's second book, "See, I Told You So," was on
the NY Times best-seller list for 16 weeks and has sold over 2.25
million copies.

LEST WE FORGET

The following are from the Rush Limbaugh show on Wednesday, June
3, 1992:

o	Ed Rollins, former campaign manager for Ronald Reagan,
announced he would be joining Perot's campaign. The NY Post
reported that Perot offered $5 million to Rollins, as well as
another $5 million to Hamilton Jordan, who ran Jimmy Carter's
campaign.

Mike from Memphis, TN noted that he voted for Pat Buchanan in the
primaries because he didn't know if he could support George Bush
anymore. It seemed to Mike that anytime a new problem came up,
Bush wanted to throw money at it, and Mike, a strong Ronald
Reagan fan, had to wonder if Perot's hiring of Ed Rollins meant
he should support Perot.

o	The California primary was the big political news, and
Rush enjoyed the spectacle of Republican Tom Campbell, whose
political ads portrayed him as a conservative, delivering a
victory speech in the Republican Senate primary race when only 1%
of the vote had come in. Campbell, who was fiscally conservative
but to the left of center on everything else, was a bit
premature, though, as a true conservative, Bruce Herschensohn,
won the race, earning the right to face Rep. Barbara Boxer in the
November election.

o	USA Today claimed that Rep. Robert Dornan (R-CA) could be
in the "fight of his life" against a NOW-sponsored pro-choice
Republican woman. Rush checked with the news services on
CompuServe, though, and found out that Dornan won his race
easily, 60 to 40%.

o	Dr. Jonathan Mann of the International AIDS Center at
Harvard University's School of Public Health claimed AIDS was
spreading faster than the attempts to treat and stop it. He
stated "our main conclusion is that the AIDS epidemic is heading
out of control - that little more than 10 years after the
discovery of AIDS, that the global vulnerability, the world's
vulnerability to the further spread of AIDS, is actually
increasing not decreasing." Mann also claimed that AIDS would
"permeate" every country by the year 2000 because governments and
international organizations lacked "effective means to control
it."

o	The Earth Summit was in full swing, and EIB had its own
correspondent, Dr. Dixy Lee Ray, in Rio de Janeiro to make sure
the country got the truth about this attempt to con the
industrialized nations out of their money. Secretary General
Maurice Strong started the money grab rolling by claiming that
$625 billion a year would be needed for 10 years to clean up the
planet.

The socialist Prime Minister of Norway insisted that the Earth
Summit agenda include both a report written in the 70s by
socialist Willy Brandt as well as a report she wrote in 1987
based on Brandt's work. This was only one indication that the
Earth Summit was based on socialism, and that its recommendations
were blatantly socialist in nature.

Secretary General Strong, a Canadian oil millionaire living in
Switzerland, stated that industrialization was wrong; Dr. Ray
noted that Strong came to this conclusion conveniently after he
used industrialization to make his millions in oil. In his
opening remarks Strong stated that "the environment, and all of
the natural resources of the planet, and all of the life support
systems continue to deteriorate, while climate changes and ozone
depletion become immediate and acute."

Strong also said that "the problems we face are that the patterns
of production and consumption in the industrialized world
continue to undermine the Earth's life support system."

The Investors Daily newspaper had a story about carbon dioxide
which showed that the United States created more carbon dioxide
as a nation than any other country; however, Poland by itself
created three-fourths the amount of carbon dioxide produced by
the US. Poland and China also topped the list of the world's
worst polluting nations. South Africa was third, followed by
India, Mexico, South Korea, Australia, and Canada. The United
States was ninth, barely above the global average.

o	Jeff from Warrensburg, MO noted that the ACLU sent a
letter to the local school board warning them that they could no
longer mention the name of God or of Christ in their
commencement, baccalaureate, or other services. The ACLU
basically blackmailed the school, warning that any mention of God
would result in an ACLU-sponsored lawsuit. Jeff wondered why the
ACLU was spending so much money to take God out of schools.

********

MORNING UPDATE

<<Today's Morning Update is a repeat of the one which was
originally aired on Tuesday, April 19, 1994>>

"Well, comrades," Rush states, "sexual harassment is in the news
again." A 62-year-old chief physician at a municipal clinic
repeatedly grabbed and groped a 35-year-old female physician,
warning her that she'd be fired if she refused his advances. The
woman believed the man because he had already fired two previous
women for precisely that reason. However, although the woman had
witnesses and tapes of the incidents, her complaints were ignored
by city administrators.

Furthermore, an advertisement in a big city newspaper advertised
for a secretary who could type, operate a computer, and speak
German. However, the woman also had to be between the ages of 18
and 25, be five-foot seven inches tall, and have long hair; the
winning applicant would be selected by a "contest." Other ads
were even more brazen, advertising for women who were "without
inhibitions."

These things, though, are not occurring in America, but in
Russia. The NY Times reports that Russian businessmen see no
problem with such behavior, claiming that women in Russia "view
their bodies as a way of furthering their careers" and that this
is just the way things are. One businessman even fires any woman
working for him who gets married.

Rush thinks it's clear why all this is happening - Vladimir
Posner left Russia so he could come to America, and together with
Phil Donahue, tell Americans what they must do to become good
people. "Vlad, head back to Russia," Rush pleads. "Save them, and
please - take Phil with you!"

<<Because Rush is off enjoying wedded bliss, his show is being
hosted today by Detroit News and USA Today syndicated columnist
and former speech writer for President George Bush, Tony Snow>>

FIRST HOUR

Tony starts off the show by recounting how Eric Holder, U.S.
Attorney for the District of Columbia, yesterday handed down a
indictment on Rep. Dan Rostenkowski; the indictment, which ran to
49 pages, included 17 felony counts, including five counts of
mail and wire fraud, one count of obstruction of justice, six
counts of concealing a material fact, four counts of
embezzlement, and one count of conspiracy. Tony notes that
"concealing a material fact" basically means a cover-up.

The fifth count in the indictment is especially interesting as it
deals with Rostenkowski's ability to use federal funds in new and
ingenuous ways. In particular, Rostenkowski leased and bought
vehicles, at taxpayer expense, allegedly for use as "mobile
district offices." This is basically auto theft, although more
done in a more gentile manner than most auto thieves, and it was
done by a man in charge of determining how the taxpayers' money
should be spent.

Members of the House are permitted to lease an official vehicle
for use as a mobile district office, so that in itself isn't
illegal, and the idea of a mobile district office does make sense
for those districts that encompass hundreds of square miles.
Rostenkowski, though, represents a very small urban area,
Chicago, in which a fixed office would not be a major handicap
for either him or his constituents.

However, between January, 1986 and December, 1992, "defendant
Rostenkowski" and his family obtained personal ownership and
title of seven vehicles from Wilshore Motor Sales. The
congressman's congressional account at this auto dealer was
billed for more than $100,000, but the only payment ever made
against this debt was one check for $5,294 drawn on the account
of one of Rostenkowski's daughters.

Thus, Rostenkowski paid $5,000 for seven cars, with the taxpayer
picking up the rest of the tab. In fact, between February, 1987
and December, 1992, the taxpayer was billed a total of $73,000 in
70 monthly payments by Wilshore.

Rostenkowski yesterday told the American public that he hadn't
done anything wrong, and Tony admits it's admirable that
Rostenkowski is willing to fight for his honor. However, it is
difficult to imagine how Rostenkowski can explain this particular
"gentile auto theft," much less the remaining indictments.

Tony notes that Rostenkowski will be facing two "courts" right
now - a federal court in DC and the court of public opinion, and
it doesn't look good that his lawyer, Bob Bennett, was trying to
"cut a deal" with federal prosecutors. The fact that a lawyer was
willing to make a plea bargain basically means he was talking
about his client serving a little jail time in exchange for the
elimination of the majority of indictments; after such a jail
term, of course, Rostenkowski could start collecting his federal
pension of over $100,000 a year. The people have therefore
probably decided that Rostenkowski is guilty, given that his own
lawyer was trying to cop a plea that meant jail time.

The federal indictment also alleges that Rostenkowski used
taxpayers money to finance his own personal staff, with 14
"ghost" employees on the federal payroll who didn't perform any
federal functions. One employee was paid from May, 1977 to
November, 1986, receiving a total of $20,000; this employee's
function was allegedly to take photographs of Rostenkowski and
his associates, family, and friends at events such as his
daughters' weddings and parties at Rostenkowski's Wisconsin
summer home.

Tony notes that a couple of years ago, Dan Rostenkowski gave a
feverish and impassioned speech in favor of a congressional pay
raise, arguing that members of Congress had to get more pay
because it was simply impossible for them to maintain a home in
Washington and a home in their home districts, and serve their
constituents, without going broke. Yet somehow Rostenkowski
managed to count his pennies well enough to afford not only homes
in Chicago and Washington, but a summer home in Wisconsin at
which he threw lavish parties for friends, associates, and
lobbyists.

Another employee was employed for four months in 1991, receiving
$3600 for "personal services," such as engraving gift items and
mounting items on plaques. A third employee, Rostenkowski's
godson, was employed in 1976 for one month and received $1500 for
mowing the grass at Rostenkowski's summer home.

Tony thinks stuff like this is why Rostenkowski will become the
posterboy for the term limits movement and will therefore end up
doing more for congressional reform than anyone else in history.
There are a lot of members of Congress wringing their hands about
these indictments, not just because they feel sorry for
Rostenkowski, but because they know that "there for the grace of
God and the federal prosecutors go I."

Rostenkowski's trial threatens to bring down "the good ship of
Congressional Corruption," and Tony believes this will be only
the opening salvo against members of Congress who are living the
good life at the expense of the people, people who have to abide
by rules and laws that Congress never imposes on itself.

*BREAK*

To put listeners in a Rostenkowski-type mood, Tony plays a
current EIB favorite:

<<Announcer>> Attention, stamp collectors! The Capitol Hill Post
Office announces a must-have stamp for your collection - the Dan
Rostenkowski limited edition postage stamp. This special stamp is
available for a limited time only, and it features Dan
Rostenkowski at his best - surrounded by reporters, refusing to
answer any questions.

<<Disgusted woman>> Euugggh! There's no way you could get me to
lick that thing.

<<Announcer>> No need to worry about that! The Dan Rostenkowski
limited edition stamp has no glue on it; it won't stick to
anything and nothing will stick to it!

<<Excited stamp collector>> How do I get one?!?

<<Announcer>> Simply go to the Capitol Hill Post Office, cash a
constituent's check, and the stamp is absolutely free, no
questions asked!

<<Excited crowd>> Super!

<<Announcer>> And while you're there, you can vote on which Bill
Clinton you'd like to see on the new Presidential stamp: the old,
likable campaigning Bill Clinton or the new promise-breaking,
misleading, and occasionally confrontational Bill Clinton.

<<Excited crowd>> We're not sure which one we hate more!

<<Announcer>> The new limited edition Dan Rostenkowski postage
stamp. Another fine service from the Capitol Hill Post Office.

********

Tony notes that Rostenkowski, as a member of Congress, enjoys the
franking privilege which allows him to mail stuff for free. Yet
he still acquired nearly $81,2000 worth of stamps from the House
Post Office; what was he using these stamps for, given that he
had free mailing privileges? Rostenkowski, though, seems to have
enjoyed not just grand auto theft but petty graft, given that
over the years he turned over at least $21,000 worth of these
stamp vouchers into cash, stealing from the American taxpayers a
little at a time.

A lot of people are saying that it's shame these charges are
happening against such a "nice guy" as Rostenkowski, and
Rostenkowski surely was a "nice guy" who kept close tabs with his
Chicago district, making the rounds, shaking hands. Rostenkowski,
of course, though, was also very adept at congressional strong-
arming, making sure that less senior members of Congress marched
in step with the Democratic leadership, and he wasn't afraid to
break a few political kneecaps if he had to. Rostenkowski knew
how the game was played in Washington.

Another defense being made for Rostenkowski is that he's just an
"old-style politician" who didn't change with the times. Tony,
though, points out that it's not ever been an accepted practice,
except in Chicago, for a politician to steal seven cars, put
non-existent employees on the payroll, and use federal employees
for personal uses. What Tony finds interesting about Rostenkowski
is that there doesn't seem to have been any amount of graft that
was too small or petty for him. While he was in charge of
billions of the taxpayers' money, he was ripping off the
taxpayers a buck at a time.

It's also being said that Rostenkowski's exit is bad news for the
Clinton health care plan, but if this is so, it's only because
the health care plan was weak to begin with. The public doesn't
want this plan, and the polls show this; to say that Rostenkowski
was the only hope for this plan simply shows how weak the Clinton
plan is right now.

The country, Tony thinks, should proclaim a national day of honor
for Eric Holder, who's decided that in spite of any pressure
coming down on him from the White House and Congress that he
would still pursue this case to the wall. Holder noted yesterday
that congressmen have a sacred trust from the people, a trust
which means not only being able to distinguish between honest
behavior and graft, but to use the people's money wisely and not
to jam programs and policies down their throats.

Tony notes that the House Post Office was a den of iniquity, and
Democrats, led by Tom and Heather Foley, covered this fact up for
more than nine months. One story that Tony has heard from a
member of Congress is that one day a son of a member of Congress
showed up at the House Post Office high in cocaine and clad only
in rubber bands; this son then proceeded to tell everyone that he
was an airplane and ran around the office making airplane noises.

It's thus no surprise that Democrats took all the records from
the House Post Office, bundled them up and shipped them to the
U.S. Attorney's Office, hoping to hide them from the Republicans
and public. It's clear that the investigation of Dan Rostenkowski
will implicate other Democrats and will highlight how these
members of Congress seemed unable to understand a basic precept
of civilization: though shalt not steal.

*BREAK*

Phone	Mary Matalin from Washington, DC

Tony welcomes Mary Matalin, former member of the Bush campaign
and current host of "Equal Time" on CNBC to the show. Before
getting to the political stuff, though, Tony asks Mary to give
the EIB audience some juicy news about Rush's wedding, which she
was fortunate to have attended.

Mary says that the wedding was very romantic and bets Tony would
have wept, as everyone else did, at how sweet and personal the
ceremony was. Justice Clarence Thomas presided at the wedding,
which was attended by Justice Thomas's wife Virginia, Bill
Bennett and his wife Elaine, Mary and her husband James Carville,
the mothers of the bride and groom, and, of course, Rush and his
bride Marta.

Mary thinks Rush and Marta wrote the ceremony themselves, and
they did nothing but stare at each other throughout the ceremony,
being the picture of the perfect couple. Everyone was crying and
it was a very touching and personal wedding - even the men had
tears in their eyes. Tony loves the idea that the "new sensitive
man" is now defined as Justice Thomas, Rush, Bill Bennett, and
James Carville, and he asks Mary to continue.

Mary says that Rush didn't really cry, although he did seem a bit
overtaken by the emotion. She notes, though, that contrary to
what's been reported by the press, Marta Fitzgerald is not an
"aerobics instructor"; she's very fit and probably does aerobics
for that purpose, but she's an honors graduate in journalism and
is extremely smart.

Marta was wearing an off-the-shoulder, cream, lace dress that was
absolutely beautiful, and the rings, which were picked out by
Rush, undoubtedly under close supervision from Marta, were also
gorgeous. Mary points out that the evening was totally non-
political, which was surprising given the company at the wedding.

Tony says he heard that the wedding was not politically correct,
given that after dinner the men retired to the deck of Justice
Thomas's home to smoke "big old stogies." Mary admits that this
is true - after dinner, the men smoked some giant cigars that
Rush brought while the women talked about babies. "It was pretty
cool," Mary states.

Tony wonders if this baby talk means Rush and Marta will be
looking for any babies soon. Mary doubts that because, in
addition to the fact that Marta already has two children, the two
of them seem to have a lot of things they want to do first before
worrying about that.

Mary is glad that Rush and Marta were able to get married
privately, without having to endure the distractions of the
press, and both she and Tony promise they will not say one word
about where the happy couple is honeymooning.

Tony next asks Mary about the "politics of lashing out" being
performed by Bill Clinton. Mary says that she was recently
reviewing her newsclips of 1992 and was amazed at how many times
Bill Clinton claimed that the Republicans were divisive.

This reminded her of how after Republicans scored their ninth
consecutive big election victory since November, 1992 (the
election of Ron Lewis in Kentucky to a congressional seat that
had been in Democratic hands for 129 years), Bill Clinton went up
to Congress to drum up support for health care. Clinton then
tried to distract attention from how Democrats missed their
Memorial Day deadline for coming up with a plan by attacking
Republicans.

Clinton undoubtedly knows that his health care plan is losing
support among the people right and left, and he tried to make
Republicans the bogey-men by saying that the only reason the
people weren't supporting it was because "these new Republicans
are right-wing fanatics - they are messengers of hate and fear."

Mary, though, wonders whom Clinton is talking about - Kay Bailey
Hutchison or Christine Todd Whitman perhaps? Just who are these
"Republican messengers of hate and fear"? Tony notes that this
speech was only a couple of days after Clinton talked about how
the country in general and Congress in particular had to be civil
and work together for health care.

This was a classic bait and switch for Clinton, who tells the
public "let's be nice," yet then claims he's a victim of
"powerful forces" and hate-mongering Republicans. Mary says she
is offended by how Clinton is characterizing Republicans;
granted, Ron Lewis of Kentucky is a minister, but does that mean
he's a "right-wing religious fanatic" and a "messenger of hate
and fear"?

The Democrats seem unable to view the conservative wing of the
Republican party as anything but hateful and fanatical. Tony
notes that this is a typical Democratic strategy: to portray
everyone who opposes you as evil. He asks Mary to hang on through
the break.

*BREAK*

Phone	Mary Matalin from Washington, DC (continued)

Tony asks Mary about Clinton's performance on foreign policy,
noting that during the 1992 campaign Clinton tried to treat
foreign policy as being on a par with "character," i.e. not an
important topic at all. Mary notes that Clinton is always "one
step ahead of the sheriff," and during the campaign he
continually attacked Bush's foreign policy, saying his Haitian
policy was racist, that his Chinese policy was unconscionable,
and that his Bosnian policy was immoral. Now, though, Clinton has
adopted all of these Bush policies himself.

Mary notes that foreign policy cannot be run for domestic
consumption, but this seems to be what is governing the Clinton
administration's foreign affairs. Clinton's flip-flopping on
Bosnia, Haiti, and China, not to mention Somalia and North Korea,
is dangerous, given that these leaders aren't impressed with
flip-flops.

It is telling to note that Clinton reportedly decided to award
Most Favored Nation status to China so as to get their support
for sanctions against North Korea and their nuclear program.
However, yesterday China declared it would do no such thing, so
the question is just what the heck is Clinton's plan, if he has
any at all.

Tony notes that foreign leaders are used to the United States
providing leadership, not trial balloons, and Clinton is not
impressing them. Mary says she was making some of these points to
Vide President Gore on her own show last week, and one caller was
upset at her because "we did not hire Bill Clinton to do foreign
policy but domestic policy."

Mary admits that foreign policy is not part of Americans' day to
day life, but whether North Korea eventually ends up with a dozen
nuclear bombs will indeed affect Americans. Maybe this is stuff
that Americans don't want to be personally concerned with, but
they should want their leaders to be very concerned about them.

Tony agrees, and notes that the United States is trying to put
together a coalition to stand against North Korea, but Clinton,
for the sake of political expediency at home, has offended both
the Japanese and Chinese. The U.S., though, needs friends across
the world and we can't afford to offend them because Clinton and
friends want to rack up some points among the American people.

Mary notes that Clinton recently said that his problems with
foreign policy are `communication problems.' This is what the
Clinton administration seems to always think when its policies
are criticized, that it's not that the people don't like
Clinton's policies, but that those policies aren't being
communicated properly.

Tony admits the Bush administration had the same short-
sightedness, and Mary agrees - in fact, the Bush administration
campaign did have trouble with both its policies and its
communications. However, the Bush administration at least had the
saving grace of being a Republican administration that didn't
want government to do so much, but this isn't the case with Bill
Clinton.

Tony notes that Clinton's "saddlebags" are full of big government
policies and of plans to take even more of the people's money and
freedoms from them. He thinks this will be a common theme in the
future: the people trying to keep their money out of Bill
Clinton's avaricious hands, and he thanks Mary for calling in.

*BREAK*

Phone	Kevin from Wisconsin

Kevin asks how much longer Americans will continue to think
Clinton is an honest politician. Tony thinks Americans have
already discounted Bill Clinton, whose trust numbers have always
been far lower than his popularity poll numbers.

One of the reasons Clinton is in trouble is because should things
start to fall apart domestically (i.e. the economy failing and
nothing being done on health care), he'll have nothing left with
which to get the people's support. Some observers think the
country signed in a Faustian bargain by electing Clinton, in that
the people were willing to ignore his character flaws so as to
get what Clinton promised. If this is true, though, then what
does Clinton have left going for him if the can't deliver on his
promises?

Kevin notes that Clinton continually lies and changes his story,
but the press never seems to care. Tony says this is a good point
because he'll talk about it in the second hour, in reference to
the "Porkchopper incident." He thinks one of the most amazing
pictures he's yet seen about this administration is the one
showing a Marine guard, who undoubtedly joined the military to
defend and serve his country, saluting a Presidential golf bag as
White House aide David Watkins climbed aboard Marine One.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Tony notes that Walter Williams will be hosting the show tomorrow
and Friday.

Phone	Pete from Lafayette, CA

Pete asks why Rostenkowski isn't being indicted for income tax
evasion. Tony thinks the fraud charges are basically the same
thing, but perhaps if Holder's indictments fail to get a
conviction, Rostenkowski will be charged with tax fraud.

Pete says his dream is to see "Bill and Danny," who were once
united on a podium in Chicago when Rostenkowski was fighting his
recent primary battle, reunited behind bars. He thinks these two
are the "Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid of the 90s," and he
doesn't know why people are surprised that this professional
thief stole money.

Tony says the biggest scandal is that voters do expect this sort
of thing from their representatives and they don't consider it to
be anything new. However, maybe this court case will start
changing people's minds.

Pete thinks it takes a thief to vote a thief into office, but
Tony wouldn't go that far. Instead, he thinks voters are starting
to figure out just how much money of theirs is being wasted and
stolen by members of Congress.

Phone	Ron from Cleveland, OH

Ron thinks Tony is being very poetic in referring to Rostenkowski
as "defendant Rostenkowski," and notes that many people were
surprised that Rostenkowski didn't choose to cut a deal but
rather decided to take his chances with a jury. Tony says that
this might perhaps indicate that Rostenkowski is clueless as to
the public's sentiments about all this - he's already lost the
battle for public opinion as his own lawyer has already admitted
he's guilty.

Ron, though, isn't sure of any conviction, given that the jury
pool will come from the same group of individuals that elected
the ex-convict Marion Barry back to an elected office. Tony
agrees, but notes that the DC voters are just as much anti-
federal government as anyone; in fact, both Barry and Mayor
Sharon Pratt Kelly were elected on a strong stance against the
federal government. So the fact the jurors will come from DC
really doesn't mean they'll look kindly towards a member of
Congress accused of graft.

Ron points out that Rep. Mary Rose Oakar was finally voted out of
office because of things like cashing checks at the House Bank
and employing ghost employees. To Ron, this kind of abuse is only
possible when members of Congress are in office so long that they
start thinking they can do whatever they want. Tony says this is
why he thinks Rostenkowski will become the posterchild of the
term limits movement, illustrating why term limits are so
necessary.

Phone	Francis from Old Seabrook, NJ

Francis points out that if an executive of a major corporation
misappropriated funds, he'd be told to take a leave of absence
while the court case was pending, and to come back only when he
was cleared. Francis thus doesn't see why the country has to
tolerate keeping Rostenkowski in office until he goes to trial.

Tony notes that typically members of Congress are ultimately
adjudicated by their fellow members of Congress, which is why
they end up thinking they are above the law - they are never
forced to obey the law. Francis says he's tired of this elitism
and hopes that the "peasants" start demanding such things be
ended.

Phone	Larry from Carthage, TX

Larry is glad that Tony is around, articulating his beliefs
strongly and framing the debate, without allowing the Democrats
to run over him; unfortunately, Tony seems to be one of the few
conservatives around who can do this. Larry wishes that this had
happened more during the Bush administration when Republicans
instead let the Democrats beat them to death.

Tony admits this was a problem during the Bush administration,
and Republicans still seem scared to death about being hard-lined
about their principles and of going for the jugular. Larry says
that his local member of Congress, Rep. Jim Chapman (D-TX), voted
against investigating the House Post Office scandal, claiming
that the special prosecutor didn't want Congress to do this. Tony
notes that the Democrats are using this same excuse for
Whitewater, which is why he's started referring to this as
"taking the Fiske defense."

Tony adds that Democrat leaders in Congress knew about problems
in the House Post Office nine to ten months before the Washington
Times broke the story in January, 1992. Thus, it should also be
asked what these guys knew, when they knew it, why they covered
it up, and how much this cost the taxpayers.

Larry thinks Speaker of the House Tom Foley is certainly guilty
of obstruction of justice. Tony notes that the chief of the
Capitol Hill police force resigned after Congress stonewalled the
investigation into the House Post Office, and he has already
testified to the grand jury. Thus, Tony wouldn't be surprised to
hear more about this coming out in the near future.

*BREAK*

Phone	Kent from Kansas City, MO

Kent saw Tony Snow on CNN over the weekend, and Tony admits he
made a wrong prediction on that show; he stated with certitude
that Rostenkowski would cut a plea bargain, which only goes to
show how bad his prediction abilities are.

Kent says he is in the insurance business, and a lot of his
wealthy clients are paying a lot more in taxes now, thanks to how
tax shelters were eliminated in the 1986 Tax Reform Act. Kent
thus wants to know why George Bush didn't bring this point up
during the 1992 campaign.

Tony says he really doesn't know, but notes that the Reagan tax
cuts brought more of the rich into the taxpaying mainstream than
ever before; one amazing fact is that since the 1990 tax
increases, the rich have been paying a smaller portion of the
overall tax bite than before, falling from 26% to about 21%. And
since the Clinton tax increases took effect last year, income tax
revenues have slowed down, increasing less rapidly than other
taxes. In other words, thanks to Clinton's tax increases, people
are sheltering and hiding their incomes again.

Kent asks if Tony was writing any speeches for Bush during the
campaign, and he replies that he wasn't. In fact, he ended up
writing stuff for people outside the administration, trying to
make the points that those in the administration should have been
making.

Kent wonders why the Bush campaign didn't make these points. Kent
says that Dan Quayle's book reports that there were some
conflicts in the campaign. For example, some of those in the Bush
campaign were urging Bush to raise taxes, because not only didn't
they believe in Reagan's tax cuts but because they wanted to
increase spending so as to buy votes.

They wanted to portray Bush as the environmental President, the
education President, etc. In other words, the Bush campaign was
trying to satisfy every wing of the party except the conservative
wing.

Phone	Dick from Aberdeen, WA

Dick asks if Tony sees any parallels between Rostenkowski and
Wilbur Mills, in how little contact with reality these guys have.
Tony notes that Rostenkowski's ghost employees were not strippers
and Wilbur certainly had personal problems that Rostenkowski
hasn't displayed. However, Rostenkowski does seem to have some
sort of political and ethical vertigo, which made him think he
was justified taking thousands from the taxpayers because he
wasn't making the millions that others in Washington were making.

Dick wonders if Rostenkowski basically was in the system too
long, and Tony bets this point will be made, with a lot of people
quoting Lord Acton's "power tends to corrupt and absolute power
tends to corrupt absolutely." It's easy for those in Washington
to justify their theft of the people's money, complaining that
they are engaged in public service, doing the people's will,
working long hours without ever seeing their families, etc.

However, a lot of people outside of Washington have to work hard
and to work long hours without seeing their kids, and they aren't
able to steal cars from other taxpayers; of course, most people
outside of Washington have to work long hours in part because of
the taxes they have to pay. Members of Congress, though, think
they are doing noble work and that this justifies their being an
exception to normal honest behavior.

Rostenkowski, for example, has said that he would like the
capstone of his career to be pushing through a health care plan
that will "save the lives of millions of people." Yet, though,
the Clinton health care plan is really about helping 2% of
Americans who are unable to get insurance, at the expense of the
remaining 98%.

A lot of people would thus like to see Rostenkowski fail in this
"dream" of his, especially since Congress over the past few years
has become more unpopular than ever. This is amazing because the
idea that Congress is corrupt is not new - 100 years ago Mark
Twain quipped that members of Congress were the only native class
of American criminal. Perhaps, therefore, the Rostenkowski trial
and continuing public outrage will mean the American people will
seize their government back.

*BREAK*

Phone	Frank from Towson, MD

Frank saw Tony appear on Crossfire with Eleanor Clift last month,
and Tony notes that he apparently has been chosen to be the
conservative who appears with the "girls," given that he often
appears with Democratic women such as Clift and Ann Lewis. Frank
thinks Tony handled himself quite well on Crossfire and is "very
smooth."

Frank was especially impressed when Tony said on Crossfire that
Clinton was a very sick man. Tony says that he actually said that
if Paula Jones's story is true - that he dropped his pants in
front of a woman he hadn't known for two minutes - then he's a
sicko. Of course, if Jones's story is not true, then she's the
sicko.

Frank thinks Tony handled this in a responsible way, and he
especially enjoyed the reaction Tony's comment got from Clift and
Michael Kinsley, who when they heard it looked as if they
realized that Tony had a point; "they went dead white," Frank
adds, "I think I had a black and white TV for a moment!"

Tony notes that Kinsley afterwards wrote a column saying that
perhaps Clinton was guilty of some misdeeds and should apologize.
Frank says he was also impressed by how Tony handled himself and
kept the liberals off-balance throughout the show. Tony thanks
him for that and for calling.

Phone	T.J. from Houston, TX

T.J. heard Tony near the end of yesterday's show talk to a member
of the military who didn't hold it against Clinton for not
joining the military because not everyone is cut out for the
military. T.J. says she was a bit disappointed that Tony agreed
with this caller.

Tony says this caller made two important points, the first of
which was that Bill Clinton is the Commander-in-Chief, and thus
pretty much has to represent the military at events such as the
Memorial Day and D-Day ceremonies. The caller noted that had
Clinton refused to attend these functions, he would have insulted
the military far worse than anything he had done as a college
student dodging the draft.

The caller also said that Bill Clinton might not have been fit or
cut out for military service 25 years ago; however, he also
pointed out that there have been many others in this position who
have still served their country in the military. For example,
there was a Quaker pacifist who won the Medal of Honor in WWII
for saving lives as a medic; thus, Tony thinks the caller was
saying that Clinton could have served his country in an honorable
way had he really wanted.

Tony adds, though, that the caller was still an active duty
member of the military, so his ability to criticize the President
was severely limited. As it is, Tony admires the guy for calling
and expressing the opinions that he did.

T.J. says she thought the caller was saying that only those who
are naturally "cut out" to be a fighting member of the military
should do so; however, if the generals who sent the troops out
for the Normandy invasion had accepted that principle, D-Day
would never have occurred and Europe would probably have never
been liberated.

Tony agrees - there's a common misconception that soldiers like
war and killing. This is insane; people serve their country in
their military and are willing to go to war because they
understand what's at stake and want to defend their country and
its freedoms.

Also, Tony is reminded of how one of the most important lessons
of the Vietnam War was that America was right about the dangers
of Communism. The 57,000 dead American soldiers did not die in
vain, although those who survived were betrayed by their country
when they came back.

Tony suspects that this is one reason that Clinton and his
draft-dodging and war protesting are still controversial, because
soldiers returning from Vietnam were treated like dirt and
definitely not given the thanks they deserved. T.J. says she
would simply like to point out that a lot of soldiers who have
died during wars were not "cut out" for fighting; many of these
brave men and women would have liked to have had an office job,
but they didn't have that chance and they ended up paying the
ultimate price.

Tony agrees, and he doesn't think yesterday's caller was saying
anything different. It is a good point to make, though, that a
lot of men and women ended up sacrificing a great deal, even
their lives, in Vietnam, and what's different about them is that
they made these sacrifices while there were those in America
protesting them and what they were doing.

These soldiers' bravery and gallantry is thus perhaps even more
deserving than those in other wars, given how they were never
given the thanks they deserved. The moral should thus be that
Americans should never turn up their noses at brave Americans who
are willing to do their duty and perhaps sacrifice incredibly
young lives for the nation's business.

Tony notes that EIB has gotten a lot of requests to replay the
reading that Charlton Heston made of a letter written by Robert
J. Grady, a retired Air Force Lt. Colonel. He'll thus do this in
the last segment of this hour.

*BREAK*

Tony decides to play an ode to the "new politics of meaning":

<<Bill, speaking over intro>> Honey, when I'm in your office, I
just gotta sing!

<<Hillary>> Well, get up off your knees and make it quick! I've
got a staff meeting in fifteen minutes!

<<Bill>> Yes, ma'am!

<<Bill, singing>> I can build a new world,
All I need is their money!
Ain't it crazy and funny <<both laugh>>
That they still believe my lines?!

<<next verse, sung by Hillary>>
Socialism is good,
Look what it's done for Russia
<<Bill>> We'll just be like Boris and Natasha,
You know we can take them there . . .

<<Chorus>>
A whole new world!
A place where anything's the norm.
It will be up to me and Hillary
To make them all conform.

<<Hillary>> A whole new world,
A place where comrades can belong.
<<Both singing, without much sense of pitch whatsoever>> But if
they knew the truth,
They would conclude
That we were lying all along . . .

<<Hillary, speaking>> . . . a whole new world!

<<Bill>> Yeah, isn't it great? Think of all the things we can do!

<<Hillary>> We?? We?!!?

<<Bill>> Well, uh, they made me President . . .

<<Hillary>> It's mine! It's all mine!!

<<Bill>> But, but . . . honey, but . . .

<<Hillary>> William, I think we have to have a talk!

<<Bill, whipped>> Yes, dear.

<<door opens and then from afar, Hillary>> Why, you . . .

<<slap, followed by Bill's moaning and door closing, then Bill
sings close>> She can build a new world,
All she needs is your money.

********

Items

o	After hearing this song, Tony remarks that Bill Clinton
must have learned to sing in the same place as Mary Matalin did;
these two, by the way, have the same birthday.

o	President Clinton yesterday was jogging along yesterday
along Pennsylvania Avenue when he stopped to greet some tourists.
It was a Kodak moment, and when Clinton jogged on, a reporter
shouted to the group of tourists "what more could you want?" One
guy shouted back "George Bush!"

o	Clinton will be meeting with the Pope this week, and the
Pope has already made it clear that he plans to give Clinton a
lecture about abortion, respecting life, abortion, and the
Church's concerns about the expected U.N. document about birth
control. This reminds Tony of how Mother Theresa earlier this
year in Washington gave Clinton and Algore a swat about abortion
and the need to respect life.

o	Also, the Washington Post ran a story recently about all
the reactions, both good and bad, that Clinton gets from the
American people. The paper quoted Stephen Ambrose, biographer of
President Eisenhower and perhaps the country's foremost historian
on D-Day, on the type of person he wants to see in the Oval
Office:

"Guys in their 40s are just too young - I want maturity, I want a
world figure who's reputation is unassailable. I want someone who
isn't in the White House to make a name for himself; I want
someone who has had a respected career before he became
President. I don't think people like having a squirt for
President - I like Ike!"

Tony has to agree with that sentiment.

*BREAK*

Tony plays the letter that was written to Charlton Heston and
which Heston read yesterday on the show:

"I was embarrassed to read that President Clinton and his
advisers have said the older generation must learn to sacrifice
as other generations have done. That's my generation - I knew
eventually someone would ferret out the dirty secret: we've lived
the lifestyle of the rich and famous all over lives. Now I know I
must bear the truth of my generation and let the country condemn
us for our selfishness.

"During the Depression we had a hilarious time dancing to the
tune of `Brother, Can You Spare a Dime'; we could choose to dine
at any of the country's fabulous soup kitchens, often joined by
our parents and siblings, for those were the heady days of
carefree self-indulgence.

"Then with WWII, the cup filled to overflowing. We had the chance
to bask in the exotic beaches of Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa -
to see the capitals of Europe, travel to such scenic spots as
Bastogne, Malmedy, Monte Cassino. Of course, one of the most
exhilarating adventures was the stroll from Bataan to the local
Japanese hotels, laughingly known as `death camps.'

"But the good times really rolled for those lucky enough to be on
the beaches of Normandy, for the swimming and boating on that
pleasant June day in 1944. Unforgettable.

"Even luckier were those who drew the prized holiday tickets for
cruises on sleek, grey ships to fun-filled spots like Midway, the
Solomons, Murmansk. Instead of asking `what can we do for our
country,' an indulgent government let us fritter away our youth,
wandering idly through the lush and lovely jungles of Burma and
New Guinea.

"Yes, it's all true - we were pampered, we were spoiled . . .
rotten. We never did realize what sacrifice meant. We envy you,
Mr. Clinton, the harsh lessons you learned in London, Moscow, and
Little Rock. My generation is old, Mr. President, and guilty, but
we are repentant. Punish us for our failings, sir, that we may
learn of the true meaning of duty, honor, country."

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o	Today's NY Daily News reports that 49% of letters mailed
in New York City failed to arrive on time. One large clothing
retailer had to stop payment on $2 million worth of checks sent
to vendors because the vendors still hadn't received them after
two weeks. A Queens man who sent cards both to his neighbors in
Queens and to friends in Israel found that the cards to Israel
arrived first.

Tony recalls how a few years ago the Cato Institute dared to
suggest that the United States Postal Service be privatized, so
as to put it under the same competitive and profit pressures
every other business has to deal with. The outraged US Postmaster
sent off a letter in response, and the letter took 11 days to
travel the two blocks from the Postmaster's office to the Cato
Institute's DC headquarters.

The NY Daily News also reveals that some Brooklyn residents found
hundreds of pieces of mail dumped in their lobby by the mail
carrier, who was obviously inspired by the several stories of
such mail dumping that have come out of Chicago. Also, a notice
sent out by Manhattan Postmaster Sylvester Black to his
district's residents admitted there had been "an increase in the
number of misdeliveries in correctly addressed mail," and he
asked the residents to please make sure any misdelivered mail got
to its correct destination. "Your tax dollars at work," Tony
notes.

o	The right to keep one's property is under assault across
the country, but the most recent example is how the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service has targeted Tong Ming Lim, a Taiwanese
immigrant who bought 720 acres of desert land from Tenneco. Lim
wanted to grow bamboo and vegetables on his land, but the federal
government had already declared his land a habitat for endangered
species.

Tony notes that the federal government often doesn't tell people
that their land has been declared a habitat until after the
people have done something "illegal." Lim found this on the
morning of Sunday, February 20th when state and federal marshals
invaded his property, searching for Tipton Kangaroo Rats. Finding
bits they claimed were part of a deceased rat, they hauled away
Lim's tractor and discing machine.

The U.S. government therefore now has the distinction of filing
the following, groundbreaking lawsuit: "The United States
Government, Plaintiff, Versus One Ford Tractor, Its Tools and
Appurtenances Thereon, and One Towner Offset Disc." Thus, the
government is suing a couple of pieces of farm machinery.

The federal marshals supposedly found the remnants of Kangaroo
rats, but three months later they still haven't been able to
prove that the animal remains they found were actually part of an
endangered species. Yet they nevertheless have confiscated this
man's property, threatened to fine him $300,000, and made it
impossible for him to earn his living.

Tony notes that the only difference between a Tipton Kangaroo Rat
and non-endangered rats is a tenth of an inch in the length of
the back feet. Thus, the government has assaulted a private
individual, confiscating his property, for the alleged sake of a
big-footed rat. Recent research, by the way, indicates that
plowing fields actually ends up benefiting rats, so even if the
rats on his farm are endangered, Lim was doing them a favor.

As outrageous as this story is, though, there are others even
more so. For example, Gaston Roberges of Gaston Park, ME, after
working hard all his life and "playing by the rules," which is
something President Clinton ostensibly respects and champions,
decided to buy some property which he could develop during his
retirement.

The Army Corps of Engineers, however, decided that the Roberges
owned "wetlands," and the government bureaucrats decided to make
an example of this man and his desire to develop his land. One
Army Corps of Engineer memo even reads "Roberges would be a good
one to squash and set an example, and the guy who signed the memo
did so as "formerly the Maytag Repairman," indicating that he was
no longer going to just sit around and do nothing. Instead, this
guy now had a mission - to bash a retiree.

In October, 1992, though, the government finally admitted, after
the nearly blind Roberges had spent tens of thousands of dollars
of his own money defending himself, that he didn't need any
permits to develop his land. This man had been targeted to be
squashed, and it was all for nothing, in what ended up being
called one of the worst abuses of private property rights to be
seen to date.

o	The New York papers reported yesterday that a "train
surfer," a guy who stands on top of the trains as they zoom
along, was killed when he forgot to duck when a tunnel came
along. Also reported yesterday was the news that New York will
now require bicycle riders to wear helmets. Tony thus predicts
that sooner or later, government will require all train surfers
to wear helmets.

o	The ACLU has cheered the Supreme Court's refusal to hear
the case brought by Georgia's Cobb County which wanted to be
allowed to hang the Ten Commandments in its courthouse. Theresa
Nellison, director of the Georgia chapter of the ACLU, declared
"it is very much a victory - the Supreme Court has continued to
maintain with this ruling that church and state should be kept
separate."

Tony only wishes that this same rule could be applied to the
environmental zealots who worship the Earth, and notes that Cobb
County argued that it was important to talk about values, so as
to raise good kids, and that this was why they wanted to display
the Ten Commandments. One Atlanta official noted that the
judicial branch has coerced the American people into an "amoral
straightjacket which has begun to tear apart our society at the
seams."

Values obviously do count, and it's time for the American people
to say "enough is enough," and Tony is heartened by how this is
starting to happen.

*BREAK*

Phone	August

August notes that Dan Rostenkowski is only indicted, not
convicted, and while everyone insists that Congress is corrupt,
they'll still re-elect their own congressman again and again. And
Rostenkowski could have retired in 1992 with $1 million in
converted campaign funds, so the fact he didn't do that is
something in his favor.

August also finds it contradictory that the same people who are
supporting term limits are faulting the Clinton administration
for its lack of experience; term limits will eliminate the
experienced politicians that these critics ostensibly want. Tony
says that career politicians are one thing and experienced ones
are another; Ronald Reagan, for example, was governor of
California and President of the United States for only two terms
each office, so he wouldn't have been affected by term limits.

August says that the problem with term limits is that this will
replace experienced politicians with career bureaucrats, and
August would much rather have the former. Tony notes that Rep.
Dick Armey (R-TX) will be introducing a bill to lessen the power
of bureaucrats by implementing a flat income tax of 17%, with
$10,000 deductions for individuals, $14,000 for single parents,
$20,000 for married couples, and $5300 for dependents.

Armey also would force government programs that do not finance
themselves to justify their existence every two years. Also, his
plan would put an end to automatic withholding so that taxpayers
would end up writing a tax check each year, forcing them to see
how much they're actually paying each year to the government.

August thinks that while a flat tax is a better idea, he'd prefer
to see a Value Added Tax such as those used in Europe. Tony says
that the benefit of a flat tax is that it's not invisible as a
sales tax typically is; rather, because it shows people exactly
how much they're spending each year in taxes, it forces the
government to justify its spending to the people.

Right now people don't realize how much they're paying, unless
they're self-employed and paying quarterly tax receipts. Tony
admits, though, that getting rid of career politicians doesn't do
anything about the career bureaucrats. August notes that the
bureaucrats are worse, and people typically have their problems
with the bureaucrats, not the elected officials.

Tony agrees and says that one thing Armey also wants to do is
force government to get rid of half its regulations in seven
years; these regulations are costing the economy from $800
billion to $1 trillion a year, almost as much as the federal
budget itself. August says that state bureaucracies are almost as
bad as the federal ones, if not worse, but the biggest cost to
businesses is a poor economy, which is why August wouldn't mind
seeing a good economy with lots of regulations as opposed to a
poor one with no regulations.

August says that the insurance industry is the worst of the lost;
he notes that when he worked in Illinois, the insurance companies
were "screwing me to the wall."

Phone	Claudia

Claudia asks why there is such a concerted effort and attack
against the tobacco industry; why are the liberals so intent on
getting rid of cigarettes? Claudia refuses to believe that
liberals really care that much about the health of the people.

Tony first notes that the tobacco companies aren't being targeted
because they donate to conservatives because the truth is that
lobbyists finance incumbents, no matter what party they belong
to. Tony thinks liberals are motivated by a desire to force
others to live their lives the way liberals see fit, because
liberalism insists that people don't have the smarts to make
these decisions for themselves. This, of course, means a
corresponding loss in freedoms.

*BREAK*

Phone	Catherine

Catherine says that every once in a while conservatives call the
White House or Congress en masse, but those in Washington just
ignore those calls, claiming they are artificially generated.
Catherine wonders what else conservatives can do, other than
calling Rush.

Tony says the ballot box is the first outlet for voter anger, and
Catherine agrees, but she is still frustrated. Tony says a lot of
people feel like this; when he worked in the White House, though,
he saw that phone calls were often ignored, simply because it is
too easy to generate them with highly organized phone banks.
However, what does work are handwritten and personal notes;
members of Congress can ignore thousands of identical postcards,
but 15 handwritten notes, obviously from different people, are a
different matter.

Catherine, though, wonders how conservatives can influence CBS,
NBC, the NY Times, and other anti-conservative members of the
media. "What if you harass the media - will that do any good?"
she asks.

Tony admires Catherine's spirit, but says no because this has
been tried and it's failed. The best counter-balance to the
liberal media right now is Rush's show. However, people should
remember that the big media's influence has been decreasing over
time and will continue to decrease in the future. People are
finding other ways to get their news and to find out the facts,
and the major press had better figure out that they will get run
over if they don't stop getting in the way.

Tony encourages Catherine to remain of good cheer because the
American people will triumph; the people still believe in the
system and will work to change that system. This takes time and
patience, though.

Catherine says one thing she admires of Tony is that he's always
on the offensive, not the defensive, yet he's still a gentleman
about it. Tony thanks her for that and for calling.

Phone	George from Pensacola, FL

George is not in favor of what Rostenkowski has done, and thinks
that above all the system that allowed his abuses should be
thoroughly investigated. The fact Rostenkowski could cash in
stamps for cash shows that there weren't any checks and balances
in effect, and George has to wonder if Rostenkowski is just an
exception or is just the one who was caught.

Tony says amen to that and notes that more than 200 Democrats
voted against having a full and open investigation of the House
Post Office scandal; he thinks they were afraid that the people
would discover that Rostenkowski was not alone in his petty
theft, not to mention the drug sales that were going on. Tony
doesn't think this story will go away, and the more people learn
about it, the more outraged they will get.

Tony thinks one result of this will be a change in the way things
are done in Congress, especially since nobody in Congress really
understands the federal budget and how the federal government
works. When Tony was in the White House, he saw how the defense
budget ended up going through more than 70 committees and
subcommittees, with all sorts of things being anonymously tacked
onto it. Congress has created systems designed to obfuscate, to
keep members of Congress from being held accountable.

George says that he's angry at how members of Congress live by
different rules than everyone else; had anyone outside of
Congress did what they did at the House Bank or Post Office,
they'd be in jail right now. Yet Tom Foley still is covering up
for people like Rostenkowski, and George thinks the Democratic
power elite has to be worrying about what might be soon laid on
their doorstep.

Tony says that Republicans will certainly try to make this point,
stressing how Democrats have dominated both houses of Congress
for a total of 60 years, with the Democrats being in control of
the House for 40 years straight. However, this argument will work
only for so long. Republicans can't count on the corruption issue
to get them victories at the ballot box; Republicans have to
start offering strong alternative policies and principles,
instead of compromising so much.

George wonders if the Republicans will do anything about this
scandal, given that they strike out time and time again at making
hay about such things. Had Rostenkowski been Newt Gingrich,
though, the press and Democrats would have already drawn and
quartered him. Tony says this is true, but there will now be a
public trial of Rostenkowski, and Tony is certain this trial will
anger the people beyond measure.

Should Rostenkowski cop a plea and get away with a minimal
sentence, the people will once again see how members of Congress
get away with amazing crimes, just as happened with the Keating
Five. Tony suspects the people's anger at this will sweep away
the old guard in Congress, both Republicans and Democrats alike.

George says this might happen, but he notes that the Keating Five
cover-up was basically forgotten by the American people who seem
very apathetic about everything. People should be rioting in the
streets right now about what is happening in Washington, but
instead they seem to be numb.

Tony encourages George to remember that he is not alone with his
outrage about this; after all, Ross Perot got 20% of the vote in
the 1992 elections, and Tony truly believes that the people's
anger is increasing to the point where a watershed moment in
American politics will occur.

*BREAK*

Tony plays an old EIB favorite, the "Rush Rap":

<<Introduction, with Rush>> The fourth branch of government . . .
We . . . we . . . we are being held hostage! . . . You listen,
I'll host! <<paper rustling>> You listen, I'll host! My name is
not Bill Clinton! Never, ever! You listen, I'll host! . . . You
listen, I'll host! Period! You recognize that argument?

<<Song begins with Rush>>
Come on, Rush, you made your point, now back off!
T-t-t-taxes are contributions?
Come on, Rush, you made your point, now back off!
You are customers, but you have no choice?
Come on, Rush, you made your point, now back off!
And how do we judge?
Come on, Rush, you made your point, now back off!
I'm the target!
Come on, Rush, you made your point, now back off!
This is political cleansing!
Come on, Rush, you made your point, now back off!
This is liberalism, political correctness!
Come on, Rush, you made your point, now back off!
You don't get it? What choice . . . what choice do I have?
Come on, Rush, you made your point, now back off!
This is insanity, folks! You want to hear stupidity?

<<Bill Clinton>> That's why you sent me here . . . to keep this
seat warm.

<<Rush>> Do you understand that?

<<Clinton>> To make Washington work . . . for special interest.

<<Rush>> Do you think maybe we're not even getting to the root
cause of the problem?

<<Clinton>> A willingness to stop things that work.

<<Rush>> Recognize that argument?

<<Clinton>> Change must begin at the top.

<<Rush>> Hey! I agree!

<<Clinton>> I cut the White House staff by 25%.

<<Rush>> Naaahhh! It's no big deal to anybody, don't you get it?

<<Clinton>> I've worked harder than I've ever worked in my life!

<<Rush>> And it'll ruin his day. I don't even want to get any
further into it.

<<Clinton>> This is nothing less than a call to arms.

<<Rush>> I'm the target! You don't get it!

<<Clinton>> To keep this seat warm . . . that's why you sent me
here.

<<Rush>> A brazen comment, to be certain.

<<Clinton>> But at stake is the control of our economic destiny.

<<Rush>> That's exactly right . . . take it another step . . .
back! Don't doubt my instincts! Period!!

********

Phone	Lonnie from Ft. Collins, CO

Lonnie gives "bake sale dittos to Vanilla Snow," but notes that
the Post Office is no longer being run by tax money; instead, its
operating funds are paid for by the postage it sells. Tony agrees
this is true, but his point about the free market providing a
better service is still a good one. Lonnie says her husband works
for the Post Office, so she'll have to disagree with that; Tony
admits there could be a debate about this and thanks her for
calling.

Phone	Robert from San Mateo, CA

Robert asks if Tony thinks a health care package will be passed
by Congress this year or by the end of Clinton's term. Tony notes
that he predicted last weekend that Rostenkowski would cut a plea
bargain, so his prognostication abilities are limited, to say the
least. However, it's clear that the American people do not like
what they see about the Clinton health care plan.

During the 1992 campaign when Clinton talked about health care,
people thought he was talking about jobs, given that one of the
first things people lose along with their jobs is their health
care insurance. The American people, though, now have a slightly
better economy underneath them, so they're not as worried about
losing their jobs as about Clinton's coming up with a plan that
would steal away their current health care coverage from them.

The Clinton plan includes 3,000 pages, plus 200 pages of
"technical corrections," and the people realize this, which is
why the plan is dying - Rostenkowski's problems aren't the cause,
but rather the fact that the people know this plan is crazy.
Unfortunately, Republicans have been making a lot of noise about
how "something must be done about health care" and what they have
been proposing as a course of action is not much different from
what the Democrats want.

Robert thinks Republicans should just sit back and let the
Democrats come up with their own plan. Tony says this is a valid
approach, but Republicans have to start attacking the basic
notion that big government can solve all problems. There has to
be a big "battle royale" on these basic ideas; the people are
getting tired of "eager to please" politicians who are only
saying what they think the people want to hear and not what they
truly believe.

*BREAK*

Tony again congratulates the Limbaughs on their wedding and
thanks everyone at EIB for making his two-day stint at guest host
a real pleasure. Walter Williams will be finishing off the week
for Rush, and Tony thinks those will be great shows.

Tony remarks that the EIB audience is obviously the smartest
listening audience on Earth, and it's encouraging for him to see
that ideas still count in the U.S. and that Americans can be both
patriotic and fervent in their beliefs, without losing their
sense of humor. Washington has become a dour place in the age of
Clinton, but fortunately Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network are
the antidote.

